The Axle Has a Name

September 14, 2026

A few weeks ago I described how, across fifteen years, in agencies, publishing, industry, and eventually AI, the same pattern kept showing up: a trigger, a chain of interchangeable steps, a return to idle. The conclusion back then: at some point you stop reinventing the wheel, and build the axle instead.

The axle now has a name: Kybron.

I don’t want to reveal more than the principle just yet. Kybron is a kernel that executes a plan without knowing anything about what it’s actually for — domain-blind, as I call it. What a single step actually does isn’t decided by the kernel, but by an interchangeable building block, built for exactly that one case. And because building such a block with AI support today is nearly as cheap as configuring a universal one, there’s no longer any reason to force everything into universal solutions.

I’ve been working on this for close to a year now. It isn’t finished, and that’s exactly why I’m not showing everything at once, but in stages, as it comes together. I could call that a deliberate reveal in chapters. More honestly, it’s also caution. Parts of Kybron are still in motion, and I’d rather show what already holds than promise what’s still open.

What comes next, I’m not saying yet.